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Travel days are the most stressful. Airports in Chad are strange worlds. They are barely connected to the outside “real” world, and what...
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First Steps
Busy N’Djamena day for the team. Busy and good. The streets of this capital city look so different from earlier trips. Camouflage...
Looking at Hassayna
Today was our last visit to a camp during this trip, my ninth i-ACT Expedition to Eastern Chad since 2005. I’m excited to go back home to...
No People Should Be An Island
“We have been waiting seven years for someone to ask that question, and you are the first to ask it,” a teacher told us, when I asked,...
Donkey – Burro – Ass: More Than Just A Joke
The kids get such a kick out of seeing me take a picture of a donkey, and even more if it’s In the camp, the donkeys mean so much, beside...
My Answer
Why Darfur? I can’t even guess how many times I’ve been asked this question over the last six years. When I first started becoming an...
Faces, Voices, Not Just Numbers
I was about to write, “It seems so long ago that I was planning for the first i-ACT Expedition,” but, it WAS so long ago! It was 2005!...
Football: Djabal Style
We’ve heard this discussion dozens of times. Kids love their teams and prettend to be them on the soccer field. See a young man show his...
Running In Circles
I went for a run today, laps on a dirt track. Each lap is about 20 seconds, and the track is surrounded by tall walls with barbed wire....
Travel Day Musings and Some Questions for You
4:00am – I woke up way too early and could not go back to sleep. The alarm was set for 5:15 am, so that we could be check-out, out by the...
Teamwork and Technology
It was nice to see Yuen-Lin (YL) and Eric (E) live on our computers last night. We tested the three way communication using the equipment...
NDJ
N’Djamena (NDJ), Chad is an interesting city, which has changed quite drastically over the last year. Many more streets are paved, and we...
Ah, Beautiful Paris . . . Airport. On Our Way to Chad!
This is my ninth time flying to Paris. The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, shopping and fine dining. Nope. Paris is just a necessary stop on...